The Monument to the Sun, or Pozdrav suncu, stands at the entrance to Zadar's port, on the western point of the Zadar Peninsula in Croatia. Nikola Bašić, who also designed the nearby Sea Organ, created it. The article gives 2008 as the completion date and does not name a client.
The Sun is a circle 72 feet (22 meters) across. It uses 300 multi-layered glass plates and photovoltaic solar modules, with smaller circles that represent the planets. A chrome ring lists the titular saints of the peninsula's churches.
Lights inside the circle turn on at night for a light show. The monument also works as a calendar that shows solar data. The solar modules produce about 46,500 kilowatt-hours a year, roughly half the energy the Zadar waterfront needs.
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